Los californios® Web Site Portal

Takes you to the Los
californios® band site. Learn more about our
mission to recreate and preserve this secular music
and dance which is part of the heritage and history
of California. Also find information on purchasing
recordings of the music and sheet music for performing
it.

Explore information and
resources about the Spanish-Language Social Music
of 19th-Century Southern California, and about the
people who performed it and preserved it in the first
half of the twentieth century. Learn about Charles
Fletcher Lummis and his far-sighted recording project,
and about the people who sang for Lummis’ project.
And view programs and photographs of those performances.

Discover the legacy of
Padua Hills Theatre and The Mexican Players. From
1930 to 1974 this groundbreaking theatrical group
challenged the negative stereotypes of Mexican and
californio people and culture, and collected and
preserved California aspects of this Mexican culture
for future generations. Many of these Players and
their families are still available to tell their stories, and we
include some of those reminiscences on this site. If you have memories
of Padua Hills Theatre and The Mexican Players, please contact us
so that we may include them.

Takes you to the site
portal — the door into the site that leads
to each of the other components. You may also find
here all our favorite links to assist you in finding
more related sites, as well as a picture of Los californios® in
pirate garb. Argh!

Wares

¡Qué viva la ronda!
This energetic new CD recording by Los californios® features the songs
collected at Rancho Camulos by Charles Fletcher Lummis from members of the del Valle family household.

Flowers of Our Lost RomanceLos californios® first album includes
60 minutes of beautiful Mexican California dances and songs sung in the original archaic Spanish.